The Montefiore Institute
17, THE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1337585
- Date first listed:
- 06-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Montefiore Institute
- Statutory Address:
- 17, THE STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1337585
- Date first listed:
- 06-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Montefiore Institute
- Statutory Address 1:
- 17, THE STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE MONTEFIORE INSTITUTE, THE STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 17, THE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- THE MONTEFIORE INSTITUTE, THE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stisted
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 80025 24808
Details
TL 8024 STISTED THE STREET (east side)
8/285 The Montefiore Institute and No. 17
GV II
House, now institute and cottage. C18, altered c.1860 in Gothic Revival style. Timber framed, roughcast rendered, roofed with handmade plain and ornamental red clay tiles. Main range facing NW, with large external stack to rear, left of middle, partly enclosed by catslide extension to left rear, roofed with slate. C19 external stack at left end. Single-storey wing to rear of right end. 2 storeys and attics. 4-window range of C19 casements of 3,3,3 and one lights respectively, with cast iron lattices. 3 similar casements of 3 lights in gabled dormers with fretted bargeboards. 2 plain boarded doors, each with a C19 gabled canopy on scrolled brackets, roofed with ornamental tiles and crested ridge-tiles. Gambrel roof patterned with ornamental tiles in diamond designs. The rear stack is truncated at eaves level. The ground floor of the main range is divided into 2 large rooms used for public and library purposes; the rear extensions and the upper floors comprise a dwelling, no. 17. In both ground floor rooms the transverse beams are boxed; joggled longitudinal beams are partly boxed, partly chamfered with lamb's tongue stops. Each has a C19 freestanding post, chamfered with plain stops, supporting the transverse beam. 2 late C19 stairs from ground to first floor, the right stair altered. Late C18 dogleg stair from first floor to attic with turned newels, stick balusters and moulded handrail (missing on the first flight). Above the first floor, chamfered beams with lamb's tongue stops. The rear stack is of C16 bricks with lime mortar; to the rear of it an C18/19 hearth and additional shaft for sweeping the chimney; to front of it, a C20 grate.
Listing NGR: TL8002524808
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 116304
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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